[REQUEST] Marble reflections should update at higher frame rates

[McMasterGold]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Version

Beta 1.17

OS

Windows 11

Description

The real-time marble reflections update at a distinctly lower frame rate than the native one, and the problem becomes more severe when playing at lower frame rates. For example I am playing at 60 FPS, and it looks like the reflections are updating at 10 FPS. A tearing artifact can also be observed in the reflection.

The last build to not exhibit this issue was 1.14, while all builds from 1.15 and newer have it.

2024-06-02.20-43-04_new.mp4

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[RandomityGuy]

This is an intentional decision to improve framerate, instead of updating all the faces at once, only two of them are updated each frame.
See:

OpenMBU/engine/source/gfx/D3D9/gfxD3D9Cubemap.cpp

Line 29 in c0d8552

#ifdef MB_CUBEMAP_FAST

You can bring back the old behavior by commenting this line and compiling it

OpenMBU/engine/source/core/torqueConfig.h

Line 126 in c0d8552

#define MB_CUBEMAP_FAST

[McMasterGold]

Appreciate the response! Sadly I have very little experience with compiling builds (and have mostly failed in the past) so I'm not quite sure how I could do this. Is there any chance that it could be added as a graphics setting in the future?

[RandomityGuy]

Yes, that is the plan.